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TIL a ruby is actually just a red sapphire

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e0Gp4 TIL despite being in DC, the seal of Georgetown University says "Georgetown College on the Banks of the Potomac in Maryland" as the university was founded in 1789, 12 years before it became part of DC.
g8kW TIL the old meme that suggests Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse originated from a scene she had with Bill Murray and Johnny Depp in the 1994 movie “Ed Wood”
4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.
VMlPZ TIL that September 9th is the most common birthday in the United States
nemNP TIL Emmett Till a 14-year-old African-American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.